Anna Strhan is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UKStephen Parker is Professor of the History of Religion and Education at the University of Worcester, UKSusan Ridgely is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• Acknowledgements Permissions Details Introduction, Anna Strhan, Stephen G. Parker, Susan RidgelyPart One: What is Childhood? Theoretical PespectivesIntroduction1. From Infancy to Childhood, Augustine2. A Religion for Children, Philippe Ariès3. Erotic Innocence, James Kincaid4. The Hindu Tradition and Childhood: An Overview, Eleanor Nesbitt5. Children as Stepping Stones, Children as Heroes: Contrasting Two Buddhist Narratives, Vanessa R. Sasson6. Children in Contemporary British Evangelicalism, Anna Strhan7. The New Age Movement and the Definition of the Child, Beth Singler8. Thinking and Its Application to Religion, Ronald Goldman9. Religious Minds: The Psychology of Religion and Childhood, Jeremy Carrette Part Two: Changing Ideas and Spaces of Childhood Piety: The Secularization, Resacralization, and Reinvention of Childhood Introduction10. The Domestic Context of Child Rearing in Reformed Christianity, Richard Baxter11. On Discipline, Praise and Parental Authority, John Locke12. The Basis of Religious Education, Friedrich Froebel13. The Modern Sunday School, George Hamilton Archibald14. The Religious Potential of the Child, Sofia Cavalletti15. Godly Play, Jerome Berryman16. God Talk with Young Children, John Hull 17. Learning to be a Muslim, Jonathan Scourfield, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Asma Khan and Sameh Otri18. Becoming Muslim in a Danish provincial town, Marianne Holm Pedersen19. Faith Co-Creation in U.S. Catholic Churches: How First Communicants and Faith Formation Teachers Shape Catholic Identity, Susan RidgelyPart Three: Religion, Education and CitizenshipIntroduction20. Education, Discipline, ad Freedom, Immanuel Kant21. The New-born Child, Jean-Jacques Rousseau22. The Religious Training of Children Among the Jews, Rabbi A. A. Green23. Ambiguous adventures: Traditional Qur’anic students in northern Nigeria, Hannah Hoechner24. Passive, voiceless victims or actively seeking a religious education? Qur’anic school students in Senegal, Anneke Newman25. Children's right to religion in educational perspective, Friedrich Schweitzer26. Childhood, Faith and the Future: religious education and ‘national character’ in the Second World War, Stephen G. Parker and Rob Freathy27. ‘A new sense of God’: British Quakers, citizenship and the adolescent girl, Sian Roberts28. ‘When we get out of here…’: Danish free schools, religious children and societies of peers, Sally AndersonPart Four: Media and the Materialities of Childhood Religion Introduction29. The Child’s First Steps in Religion, John G. Williams30. A World of Their Own Making, John R. Gillis31. ‘No Matter how Small’: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss, Henry Jenkins32. ‘Making disciples of the young’: Children’s Literature and Religion, Pat Pinsent33. Golems and Goblins: The Monstrous in Jewish Children’s Literature, Jodi Eichler-Levine34. Childhood, Imagination, Consecration: Romantic Christianity in C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald, Naomi Wood35. The BBC’s Religious Service for Schools, ‘Come and Praise’, and the musical aesthetic and religious discourse around the child, Stephen G. Parker36. The Construction of Religion and Childhood in Broadcast Worship, Rachael Shillitoe 37. Children, Toys and Judaism, Laura Arnold Leibman38. Classrooms as spaces of religious and moral education and socialization, Stephen G. ParkerPart Five: Religious Discipline and the Agency and Domination of ChildhoodIntroduction39. Historical Abuse, trauma and public acts of moral repair, Gordon Lynch40. Child Soldiers and the Militarization of Children: A Muslim Ethical Response to the Situation in the Sudan, Zayn Kassam41. Understanding Childhood: Child Sex Abuse and the Roman Catholic Church, Susie Donnelly42. A Crisis about the Theology of Children, Robert A. Orsi43. The Child’s Right to Religion in International Law, Rachel Taylor44. Child labour and Moral Discourse in Brazil, Maya Mayblin 45. Mitzvah Girls, Ayala FaderAuthor IndexSubject Index

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